How to Use multiculturalism in a Sentence

multiculturalism

noun
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  • Its attraction is in its multiculturalism and its access to those working in many places and in many time zones.
    — Dan Zakai, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • As with so many other conflicts in American life, from the Scopes trial to the fury against multiculturalism, at its core has been a war over textbooks.
    — Adam Hochschild, The New York Review of Books, 16 Nov. 2023
  • And then there’s Bloom’s version, debuting a time when the backlash against multiculturalism is on the rise in America and abroad.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
  • France’s in 1998 was a triumph of multiculturalism, with a diverse group of Frenchmen lifting the Jules Rimet trophy.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The Queen had become a champion of global multiculturalism at home and abroad.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And yet, she’s left a lasting mark on Germany and the world, making Berlin the fulcrum of Europe with her steady leadership, embrace of multiculturalism, and eye for pragmatism.
    — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Then by the ‘90s, with the rise of diversity and multiculturalism, Asian Americans started popping up and showing up in places.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 1 Mar. 2022
  • There was such potential for multiculturalism in the score.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The visual enacts a kind of multiculturalism that is increasingly rare in South Asia.
    — Vrinda Jagota, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But in the early years of multiculturalism it was widely explored and Elso made both a poetic and political thing of it.
    — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Produced and directed by Razi Jafri and Justin Feltman, the documentary explores daily life and multiculturalism from the prism of the city's 2017 election.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 25 May 2021
  • O’Rourke’s message throughout his campaigns was to talk about the border as the place where millions of people live and prosper, bound by a century-old common culture, and where the future of multiculturalism lies.
    — Dallas News, 9 Nov. 2022
  • As a resident artist with Teachers & Writers in the Bronx, I was taught how to craft curriculums around inclusivity and multiculturalism, and how to avoid racial bias in my lessons, even as a light-skinned latina.
    — Virginia Valenzuela, Wired, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Anton’s vision of the world is a warped one, fetishizing power and disdaining the vulnerable, all suffused with a loathing of multiculturalism.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2020
  • In addition to this, there are the questions of immigration, multiculturalism, globalization, and le wokisme that are also top of the agenda in Britain, the U.S., and elsewhere.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Other analysts see the law as a ploy to marginalize the kind of multiculturalism promoted in the European Union – and to ghettoize Russian-speaking Ukrainians.
    — Mansur Mirovalev, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The irony is that France’s team itself is a reflection of a multiculturalism that makes the French establishment uncomfortable.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2022
  • But Hollywood has kind of put a veil on multiculturalism for themselves — unable to see what really is in society.
    — Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 July 2022
  • And yet the Rushdie affair prefigured other historical trends: struggles over multiculturalism and the boundaries of free speech; the rise of radical Islam and the reaction to it.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The political forefather of this vision is probably Pat Buchanan, who inveighed against free trade and multiculturalism in the 1990s.
    — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Some in France also see this rigid secularism as unequal to the challenges of multiculturalism and migration.
    — Ahmet T. Kuru, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Trudeau championed Canadian multiculturalism and the plight of refugees, spoke out on the threat of climate change and proudly celebrated his feminism.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • When the idea of multiculturalism emerged years ago, many saw it as a step toward extending the original American idea of openness to the new wave of non-European immigrants arriving from Asia and elsewhere.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Gisleson changed the skin color of several of Mucha’s women to reflect New Orleans’ multiculturalism.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 1 Feb. 2021
  • First, in a world where most people praise multiculturalism and diversity there seems to be a tendency to blanch and recoil when faced with genuine divergence of viewpoint and variance of behavior.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
  • The mother-of-one from western Sydney — the city's hub of multiculturalism — also hears additional comments from the public that have racial connotations.
    — Alicia Vrajlal, refinery29.com, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Her eponymous brand, rooted in multiculturalism, has grown steadily since her Milan runway debut seven years ago.
    — Colleen Barry, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2020
  • In seeking to come to terms with the challenge of multiculturalism, an obscure but important Geman philosopher of the 18th century, Johann Gottfried Herder, provides suprising insight.
    — Damon Linker, The Week, 26 May 2021
  • Their embrace of multiculturalism — with members from Ecuador, Ethiopia, Belarus and Russia — created a unique style that seamlessly blends the ethnic music of their respective homelands.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • In one of the other fresh promos, Hernández gets a bit ahead of himself by delivering excited comments in Spanish about being emotional during a week of multiculturalism where the cast can speak as much Spanish as English.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2023

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